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My Take
Marty Robbins fascinates me because he refused to be just one thing. Most singers would be content with a four-decade country career, a Grammy, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; Robbins also strapped himself into stock cars and raced competitively. That restlessness shows up in his music too, where his story songs play like miniature Westerns, complete with characters, gunfights, and consequences. To me he represents a vanished breed of entertainer: a craftsman who treated a three-minute song as a stage for full-blown drama. His voice was warm, his pen was sharp, and his nerve, on track and on record, was remarkable.
Overview
Martin David Robinson (September 26, 1925 – December 8, 1982), known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American country and western singer and songwriter. He was one of the most popular and successful singers of his genre for most of his nearly four-decade career, which spanned from the late 1940s to the early 1980s. He was also an early outlaw country pioneer.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Marty Robbins
- Name (Japanese)
- マーティ・ロビンス
- Reading
- まーてぃ・ろびんす
- Born
- September 26, 1925 – December 8, 1982
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Ox
- Origin
- Glendale, Arizona, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- singer-songwriter / composer / racing automobile driver / singer / musician
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Glendale High School
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Grammy Awards
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://www.martyrobbins.com/
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty%20Robbins
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-10
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.